Jesse Gordon wrote:
What's the exact harm of being listed as RFC-ignorant?
Rightly or wrongly I do not know, but the following are listed:
google.com
hotmail.com
yahoo.com
ebay.com
paypal.com
nasa.gov
nsa.gov
whitehouse.gov
mil.gov
fbi.gov
amazon.com
latimes.com
geocities.com
xoom.com
tripod.com
intel.com
microchip.com
I'm certainly not advocating being non-compliant, I'm just wondering
what the exact ramifications turn out to be in the real world.
Wow! :) I did not realize these "biggies" were on there too. To answer your
question, I think it largely depends on how huge you are. If someone as big
as amazon.com is on RFC-ignorant, I'm sure administrators across the world
will regard that as a mistake, and do local whitelisting for them (probably
as a result of their customers complaining). If I, otoh, appear on RFCi,
then I'm sure I have a problem of sorts. And I, unlike amazon, have no clout
to get myself delisted, other than becoming RFC compliant again.
It certainly was an interesting list; thanks for providing it. :)
- Mark
System Administrator Asarian-host.org
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